Rookie OC'ing everything! 8700K/1080ti/+

[Fanaticjam]

Figured I should make a post here about the overclocking side of my build. I've barely done any real overclocking before, just altered multiplier.. so I'm probably making a bunch of silly mistakes!

Build in my sig

I want to get everything I can overclocked - cause why the hell not!

Starting with the CPU,I didn't have much luck getting a workable 4.9/5ghz with hyperthreading, so I'm thinking I can get two OC configs, one for HT for when that's beneficial, and one without HT for gaming or so. Is this a good idea? I'm also wondering if it's possible to set per core multipliers somehow, as some cores seem to be performing a lot better than others thermalwise

At the moment with HT off I've got 5.1 ghz which peaked at 95c(VRM hit 105c!) in prime after 5 minutes (Didnt want to risk burning it out as its brand new, I usually test for 10 mins while trying different settings), realbench only hit 77c after 15mins. Intels ETU hit even lower.

I have MCE off, LLC set to max and adaptive off.

What would you advise? Are there some settings I should be checking, should I not worry about prime heat and push the multiplier further? How can I lower VRM heat output, lowerLLC?

Also, could do with a good RAM OC guide linked, or just what software to bench/test it on and would like to know how to check the thermals on it?

Thanks!

 

[Fanaticjam]

I'd look at delidding that cpu to reduce those temps down.

Ay, but I'm not sure I want to risk it right now, and I don't want to fork out the cash for a tool I'll probably not use again

 

[Fanaticjam]

Need some advise with this, I thought I might be able to lower VRM temps by lowering LLC value. Now for reference, this mobos lowest LLC option is normal or auto apparently

On low and normal with a 48 multiplier I've got the vcore set to 1.260v but I've noticed that it's only reading as 1.128v on HWmonitor during realbench stress test, oddly it comes out around 1.250v idling?

The system isn't fully stable, so it seems to need that extra voltage, any idea why it is doing this?

for ref - taken 5 minutes into realbench

Also am I correct in my understanding that the VID is the voltage the chip is wanting to pull from the mobo with the vcore being what the mobo is actually supplying? Every explanation I've seen makes it sound like it should be a static number bar one